Is being a full time working mom exhausting
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It’s hard you do what you gotta do
All of it's tiring 😫
As an introvert(I need me time) with ADHD It’s def exhausting and feel I can never keep up and never enough hours in the day. I have used therapy and anxiety meds to help me be in a more positive headspace. Basically I just try to prioritize one thing at a time. Usually housework is the area I am usually behind but taking care of myself and quality family time is more important to me.
It is exhausting, but I feel like for me personally I would be even more exhausted if I didn’t work full time 😅 Now don’t get me wrong, I love my daughter and spending time with her, but she is hard work and exhausting to be with. I also love having a career and adult time whilst also knowing I’m l able to provide for her financially especially as a single mum with very little financial support from her father.
To me staying at home full time is more exhausting (I’m a teacher so have summers off).
Not going to sugar coat things, it’s hard. I think it depends on what you want for yourself and your family though. I wish I didn’t have to work and could be a mom full time. I know being a mom full time isn’t easy, I did it for a little while when I was able to, but it’s what I wish for. It is possible to work full time and be a mom though. I have to remind myself what is important. For example, when I catch myself putting work before my child, I stop and think of what’s important in the long run…and for me, that will ALWAYS be my child. Even if what she needs/wants in that moment seems small or insignificant to me; it’s not necessarily small or insignificant to her.
I currently do 3 days a week and I’m absolutely broken by Friday. Full time working mum, part time working mum, stay at home mum, maternity leave mum… it’s all difficult in different ways. Truly though I have no idea though how full time working mums survive because 3 days a week while parenting is killing me offffff 😩
I’m a full time working mom and bring my daughter with me 😆 double the work but double the love
I go back in January after my second and I work 3 12 hour shifts I found it easier once back at work as more of a routine I find when I'm at home with the kids Im more tired. I've just done some keeping in touch days and it was so lovley to have the little ones to come home to xx
Yes being a working mom is exhausting, but ull still have energy on ur days off. I used to work 4 days a week, 12 hr shifts and still had energy to play with my babies on my days off.